Introducing... The Official MythTV Forums!

Friends of an ever-growing MythTV community, I'm honored to announce that the MythTV project is now opening the official MythTV Forums!

Over nearly 11 years since the beginning of this project, there have been many channels of collaboration offered to its users and developers based on the best way to serve the community's needs at that moment in time - mailings lists, trac, wiki, IRC, etc. Over that time, one question that has repeatedly come up again and again - "Why are there no forums?" Well, now those people who prefer to interact in a web forum will be able to do so - including new users who may be more comfortable and familiar interacting with a community in that way.

We welcome you to come and check it out and we'd certainly love to see you all there!

*** OK, some important items I want to mention as well, as I'm sure they will come up: - The mailing lists are not going anywhere. They will stay around as-is and users are encouraged to use whichever channel is more comfortable to them. - The developers are currently looking at investigating a "bridge" mod for the forum that could either allow people to use the forum as a mailing list, integrate the mailing list in to the forum, or both - this is TBD and no direction has been decided yet. In the interim, although not optimal, you can go to a particular sub-forum and select the "subscribe to forum" link, which will notify you via email of any new posts to that particular sub-forum. You can also subscribe to posts. RSS/Atom mods could also be explored if enough people would find that useful. - The forums currently support several major third-party authentication providers. Facebook Connect is currently disabled, but may be added in the future as well. Of course, you are also more than welcome to create an account directly on the site as well. - Times change, and that's OK - no need to fear! People interact differently than they did 5/10/20/30 years ago. Forums have become a norm for a majority of large FOSS projects and beyond, and have helped encourage greater community interaction and foster growth. We appreciate that some people find NNTP, usenet, mailing lists, RSS/ATOM, carrier pigeon, morse code, cave paitings, etc. most useful for their particular situation, but please respect the fact that others may have the opposite opinion. This is a diverse world - and there is no "right" answer. Please show respect for the desire to have an inclusive community, not an exclusive one. - The forums are in their infancy, so please bare with the devs as they may tweak things, install new features, create new sub-forumes, or sort through bugs. Everyone is encouraged to share any errors or bugs they may find in this thread: https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Matt S. <skd5aner [at] gmail> wrote: > Friends of an ever-growing MythTV community, I'm honored to announce that > the MythTV project is now opening the official MythTV Forums! > > Over nearly 11 years since the beginning of this project, there have been > many channels of collaboration offered to its users and developers based on > the best way to serve the community's needs at that moment in time - > mailings lists, trac, wiki, IRC, etc. Over that time, one question that has > repeatedly come up again and again - "Why are there no forums?" Well, now > those people who prefer to interact in a web forum will be able to do so - > including new users who may be more comfortable and familiar interacting > with a community in that way. > > We welcome you to come and check it out and we'd certainly love to see you > all there! > > https://forum.mythtv.org> > > > *** OK, some important items I want to mention as well, as I'm sure they > will come up: > - The mailing lists are not going anywhere. They will stay around as-is and > users are encouraged to use whichever channel is more comfortable to them. > - The developers are currently looking at investigating a "bridge" mod for > the forum that could either allow people to use the forum as a mailing list, > integrate the mailing list in to the forum, or both - this is TBD and no > direction has been decided yet. In the interim, although not optimal, you > can go to a particular sub-forum and select the "subscribe to forum" link, > which will notify you via email of any new posts to that particular > sub-forum. You can also subscribe to posts. RSS/Atom mods could also be > explored if enough people would find that useful. > - The forums currently support several major third-party authentication > providers. Facebook Connect is currently disabled, but may be added in the > future as well. Of course, you are also more than welcome to create an > account directly on the site as well. > - Times change, and that's OK - no need to fear! People interact > differently than they did 5/10/20/30 years ago. Forums have become a norm > for a majority of large FOSS projects and beyond, and have helped encourage > greater community interaction and foster growth. We appreciate that some > people find NNTP, usenet, mailing lists, RSS/ATOM, carrier pigeon, morse > code, cave paitings, etc. most useful for their particular situation, but > please respect the fact that others may have the opposite opinion. This is > a diverse world - and there is no "right" answer. Please show respect for > the desire to have an inclusive community, not an exclusive one. > - The forums are in their infancy, so please bare with the devs as they may > tweak things, install new features, create new sub-forumes, or sort through > bugs. Everyone is encouraged to share any errors or bugs they may find in > this thread: https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7

Hey I used to detest forums, but have grown to quite like them following considerable use of xbmc forums.

One thing you might like to look at is tapatalk (an android forum app) support. I use tapatalk a lot.

If this is already dealt with, I apologise for bringing it up, if it isn't, I suggest taking a look :)

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout [at] gmail> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Matt S. <skd5aner [at] gmail> wrote: >> Friends of an ever-growing MythTV community, I'm honored to announce that >> the MythTV project is now opening the official MythTV Forums! >> >> Over nearly 11 years since the beginning of this project, there have been >> many channels of collaboration offered to its users and developers based on >> the best way to serve the community's needs at that moment in time - >> mailings lists, trac, wiki, IRC, etc. Over that time, one question that has >> repeatedly come up again and again - "Why are there no forums?" Well, now >> those people who prefer to interact in a web forum will be able to do so - >> including new users who may be more comfortable and familiar interacting >> with a community in that way. >> >> We welcome you to come and check it out and we'd certainly love to see you >> all there! >> >> https://forum.mythtv.org>> >> >> >> *** OK, some important items I want to mention as well, as I'm sure they >> will come up: >> - The mailing lists are not going anywhere. They will stay around as-is and >> users are encouraged to use whichever channel is more comfortable to them. >> - The developers are currently looking at investigating a "bridge" mod for >> the forum that could either allow people to use the forum as a mailing list, >> integrate the mailing list in to the forum, or both - this is TBD and no >> direction has been decided yet. In the interim, although not optimal, you >> can go to a particular sub-forum and select the "subscribe to forum" link, >> which will notify you via email of any new posts to that particular >> sub-forum. You can also subscribe to posts. RSS/Atom mods could also be >> explored if enough people would find that useful. >> - The forums currently support several major third-party authentication >> providers. Facebook Connect is currently disabled, but may be added in the >> future as well. Of course, you are also more than welcome to create an >> account directly on the site as well. >> - Times change, and that's OK - no need to fear! People interact >> differently than they did 5/10/20/30 years ago. Forums have become a norm >> for a majority of large FOSS projects and beyond, and have helped encourage >> greater community interaction and foster growth. We appreciate that some >> people find NNTP, usenet, mailing lists, RSS/ATOM, carrier pigeon, morse >> code, cave paitings, etc. most useful for their particular situation, but >> please respect the fact that others may have the opposite opinion. This is >> a diverse world - and there is no "right" answer. Please show respect for >> the desire to have an inclusive community, not an exclusive one. >> - The forums are in their infancy, so please bare with the devs as they may >> tweak things, install new features, create new sub-forumes, or sort through >> bugs. Everyone is encouraged to share any errors or bugs they may find in >> this thread: https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7> > > Hey I used to detest forums, but have grown to quite like them > following considerable use of xbmc forums. > > One thing you might like to look at is tapatalk (an android forum app) > support. I use tapatalk a lot. > > If this is already dealt with, I apologise for bringing it up, if it > isn't, I suggest taking a look :) > > Nick.